Shirley Jacksons The Lottery :: The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

Why would a train and peaceful town would ever suggest the horrifying acts of craze rear end take place anywhere at anytime and the most ordinary stack can commit them. Jacksons fiction is noted for exploring incongruities in everyday life, and The drawing off, perhaps her most exemplary work in this respect, examines humanitys capacity for immorality within a contemporary, familiar, American setting. Noting that the storys characters, physical environment, and crimson its climactic action lacks significant individuating detail, most critics view The Lottery. As a modern-day parable or fable, which obliquely addresses a variety of themes, including the juicy side of human nature, the danger of ritualized behavior, and the potential for rigourousness when the individual submits to the citizenry will. Shirley Jackson also addresses cruelty by the citizens refusal to stand up and oppose The Lottery. Violence and cruelty is a major theme in The Lottery.The theme in The Lottery i s violence and cruelty. Violence and cruelty is a major theme because there is a lot of violence and cruelty in the world. The Lottery has been read as addressing such issues as the publics fascination with salacious and scandalizing journalism, McCarthyism, and the complicity of the general public in the victimization of minority groups, epitomized by the Holocaust of World War II. The Holocaust was very cruel and impetuous cause other pack didnt like certain people so they just kill them and their children and still now we have violence and cruelty with wars and people that hate each other.On the morning of June 27 of a recent year, the 300 villagers of an American village prepare for the one-year draught in a mood of excitement. The horrible tradition of the lottery is so old that some of its ritual has been forgotten and some has been changed. Its elementary purpose is entirely unremembered, but residents are present to take violate in it. The children in the village creat ed a great pile of stones in one corner of the stoning square. The civic-minded Mr. Summers has been sworn in and then he hands a piece of paper to the head of each family. When it is sight the Hutchinson family has drawn the marked slip, each member of the family Bill, Tessie, and the children is given another slip. lock in prevails as suspense hovers over the proceedings. After helplessly protesting the unfairness of the starting line drawing, Tessie finds that she holds the marked slip.